... Agriculture plays a declining but still important role in the Algerian economy, while mineral production accounts for the largest part of the gross domestic product. Since the late 1960s the government has instituted major industrialization programs. The estimated annual national budget in the early 1990s included $14.4 billion in revenues and $14.6 billion in expenditures. Gross domestic product, which ... and introduced many new taxes. This program was approved by Algeria's main source for external financing, the International Monetary Fund. In 1995 the IMF loaned $1.8 billion to Algeri...

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... political and economic structures were geared to serve the interests of the settler community, and whose educational system was designed to submerge the Arab-Islamic identity. Under the Code de l'indigénat, Algerian Muslims were held under extremely repressive procedures that left them with virtually ... they would loose Algeria too. In Indochina French were fighting against communist, whereas in Algeria they were fighting against Muslim who were Arab nationalists. French gave up on Indochina because they could not handle Vietnamese backed up Russian communists. Now contrasting French...

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... and wanting political reform. When the French first colonized Algiers, the French military treated the Muslim Algerians unfairly and harshly. After the French captured Algiers and General Bugeaud established a military government, he treated the native Algerians horribly; his troops would torture them, remove them from their homes, and kill them. The French wanted to "pacify" Algeria of ... violence. They wanted to be politically involved and offered better education, equal taxes, French citizenship, protection of their property, and close supervision of injustices towards Muslim Algeria...

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... defeat the French decided to move out of Indochina. France's oldest colony, Algeria, began revolts and protests to get rid of the French. War with the Algeria Arab rebels was too costly and France's government collapsed. They reinstated former French president Degaul to reassess stability back into the country. Degaul felt Algeria and other colonies were a burden to France's economy and he ... ...

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